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Phantom Lady

Robert Siodmak

1944

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Sought Out the Company

      During the dark, cold winter of 1951 i worked Wilshire Patrol, played a lot of golf, and sought out the company of lonely women for one-night stands.

James Ellroy

Clandestine

1982

                  https://pulpjournals.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/james-ellroy-clandestine/

Mario Di Girolamo

At the Depot

I watch the taxis pull up and idle

I can't claim title to a single memory

He offered me a key

'Cause opportunity don't knock

He has no tongue and she cannot talk

You're gonna shuffle when you walk

At the depot

Depot, Depot

(Waits)

Tom Waits

Mike Hodges

 Get Carter

 I'll Sleep When I'm dead

Croupier

Black Rainbow

Nightmare Alley

        The hobo stood up and edged around the fire cautiously. He watched the cartomancer warily. Nuts can blow their tops easy - and this one still held a can of hot coffee.

William Lindsay Gresham
Nightmare Alley
1946

                                     https://www.awakeatmidnight.com/nightmare-alley/

Werner Bischof

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Magnum Photos

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